Trump border wall misses start date
The Trump administration has yet to award contracts to build prototypes of a U.S.-Mexico border wall even though construction was originally pegged to begin this week in San Diego, public records show.
While money for a full wall along the 1,900-mile Mexican border has not been approved, Congress did allocate $20 million for prototypes that attracted hundreds of bidders from across the country.
Homeland Security had planned to begin construction on four to eight 30-foot tall prototypes Thursday near Otay Mesa. The location was still a dusty field this week, and Customs and Border Protection, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request from the San Diego Union-Tribune, said no contracts have been awarded.
The agency declined to say what caused the delay, when bids would be awarded, if San Diego was still the starting location or if business names of contract winners would be released. The agency also would not say if it had reviewed options for a “solar wall,” an idea recently promoted by President Trump.
Efforts to get more information on the border wall process is the subject of at least two lawsuits.
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